The Screaming Mimi by Fredric Brown - 1949: Book Club Edition

Gold Medal Books #1153, 1961. Paperback, Paperback ORIGINAL, stated 1st Edition, Sept. 1961, water stain back cover & few pgs back book, minor crease Cvr, VG-,AS-IS, SOFTCOVER. First Edition. Soft Cover.

Five Star Waterville, Maine, 2006 HBDJ, August 2006, stated 1st edition, NF+/VG+, This book is very good +condition except for minor shelf wear.287 pgs,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business on Larchmont Boulevard in Hollywood and into the mystery writing profession at the WRITERS AND ARTISTS BUILDING in Beverly Hills, where he intends to follow in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Night is persistently plagued by former clients who won't let him get past the title page of his potential Edgar Award mystery novel The Big Changeover. After too many false starts and near fatal distractions, Night finds himself on the treacherous trail of two missing objects. The first: an Imperial Fabergi Egg, The Tear of Russia, given by William Randolph Hearst over a half century ago to his mistress - --a Fabergi now valued at over ten million dollars. The second: his missing fianci, the beautiful Goldie Rose. It's soon evident that Goldie has been kidnapped, but by whom - and… Read More

Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1941,1969. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 190 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on blue cloth; lettered in black on the front panel and decorated in gilt on the spine; no dust jacket. no interior markings.Original ¼ black and blue cloth covers, blind stamped, flat spine with gilt title.

London: Atlas Press, 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Stated limitation of 1,000 copies, though this copy unnumbered. A rare early production from the essential Atlas Press, a revised version of this translation previously published in Australia. Unmarked copy, light spotting to page edges.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Signed by Kazuo Ishiguro on the title page. First U. S. edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

New York: Random House (1967).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xvi, 428 pp. Dust jacket has a short tear and a lightly faded spine. The price is intact. An attractive copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

London- UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. THE MAN THAT LOOKED ON GLASS- Noel Forrest- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.-UK- 1937-1st Edition--1st Printing- Hardcover:-8vo-VG/ no dj- original publishers light blue cloth cover with dark blue titles- lightly soiled and sunned spine, but tight and square- owners initials on title page, binding tight as is spine although somewhat yellowed by sun, but titles and author distinct in dark blue-SEE PHOTOS- No copies available either on the internet or at any World Cat library locations! Very, Very Scarce!- Fiction-mystery-thriller (3496) . 1st Edition-1st Printing-UK. Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Modern Library [Boni & Liveright], New York,, 1920 The indication for the first printing of this title listed in the Toledano Guide is the Type 2 binding used from 1920-1923, which is present here, HBDJ, 1920. 1st Edition, VG/VG-, First Modern Library Edition , with 1916 on copyright pg for orig. publ of bk. MLBook No. 89.1, , Small 4 1/4 X 6 3/4 IN. Book Condition: overall condition - very good.. EARLY DUSTJACKET with 246 Titles on DJ Verso & on Back of DJ 7 95 cents on back of Dj with Pre zipCode Coupon with some pencil mrks is VG-,. DJ SLIGHT RUB, WEAR & TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS, 289 pg. + 7 pg. of ads includes a 2 pg description of Boni & Liveright ADS include COMPLETE List of Titles starts with Modern Book of Criticisms & ends with Irish Fairy & Folk Tales by Yeats . minor edge wear spine and boards, Book is bound in DARK BLACK leatherette cloth; , otherwise, tightly bound with clean pages throughout. Nice copy,NO TOP STAIN , The spine matches MLs that… Read More

New York: The Modern Library., 1940. HBDJ, STATED First Modern Library Giant Edition, 1940. NF/GOOD+, ML#54. 274 TITLES ON VERSO OF BACK OF DJ with the highest Giant being G54, Tom Jones, A NF copy in blue cloth with light wear FOX, in a bright, unfaded, red, blue and gold dustwrapper GOOD+, with tiny Tears Wear & end chips to Spine DJ. . Very scarce in this condition. Toledano 54.1. 861 pgs NO ADS IN BACK, The book has Toledano G4 cover, A or blank endpapers and a c jacket. These pointers indicate this is a First Modern Library Edition with a fall 1940 jacket. book is in about NF condition with a decent RED top stain. It has no writing, underlining, or missing pages. The jacket has a ¼? per side triangular chip at the top of the spine, crimping at the bottom of the spine, wear at the flap folds and light soil ,Follow Tom from his humble beginnings; experience his forbidden passion for the beautiful Sophie; and ride along with him on his colorful journey to London - where he finally… Read More

Chicago / Seattle: Acme Novelty Library / Fantagraphics, 1994. Signed by Chris Ware. First edition / First printing. Oversize illustrated stapled cardstock covers. 11" x 13.75 Fine. Issued without dust jacket, Mylar jacket supplied.